The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20

The cost of maintaining the army for
the year ending June was $24, 900.
When the total expenditures for pensions
are added to this, it makes the annual
military expenses OF the United States
over $50, 100000. We are accustomed to
think in this country that European emi-
grafton is largely due to desire TO es-
cape the excessive taxation for standing
| armies, but Germany maintains its army
Of 49, 900 men at the annual expense OF
S9O, ,OOO, ,OOO-no more than the United
States pays its soldiers and ex-volunteers.
The English Government pays SIC, ,OO0,OOO
less for its army and militia, and only
$4,000, 600 for pensions. .....
The Governor of Maine has sent com.
munications to the Attorney General and
to all the county attorneys in the State,
calling attention "to the fact that con-
spiracy exists to evade the Prohibition
| Liquor law by an unjustifiable interpre-
tation of the United States revenue regu-
lations regarding the sale of liquor in i'm
ported packages, and calling upon them
to enforce the law to the fullest extent"
One of the large brick tin-roofed ware
houses Of the Pelzcr Manufacturing Com
pany at PelZer was struck by lightning at
half-past II o'clock June IL. The build
ing has capacity of 1000 bales, but was
only half full. When the stroke came
the cotton caught fire almost instanta-
neously and in a few moments the entire
mass was blazing fiercely. The loss may
be considered complete and is estimated
at 100000, fully covered by insurance.
On Thursday morning, July IA, the
scatfolding in the Hall of Representa-
tives fell, killing one man Instantly. and
wounding three others. One of these
has since died. The men, all negroes.
fell distance of thirty feet, while engag-
ed in putting in place the galvanized iron
ceiling which is to cover the Hall in fa-
| ture. This is tragic event-a most un-
happy affair connected with the repairing
Of our State House.
The year book of Charleston for 1886
has just been published. 1t shows the
total population of the city to be 60,l45;
deaths for the year, 2,167; white, 57l;
colored, 1896; deaths caused by earth
Juake 83-whites %, colored 81. City
debt little over 81, ,000,000 :.
The burning of theater in Wisconsin
last week cost fourteen lives and $45O, 900.
A bill forbidding the sale Of tobacco in
any form to minors under sixteen years
of age. has passed the Illinois Legisla-
ture. The penalty is 500 for each offence.
1uC CNpOilS VI COtVoIi SoNuS lEOI IIl6
United States in year average $40, 5OO,-
600. The exports of cotton goods from
England in year average $685., 900, 900.
Prof. E. c. Smyth, Of Andover, has
been convicted of the charge of heresy
by the visitors of that institution, and
has appealed to the civil courts.
Within ten days three men were killed
in Berkeley County, and two more will
likely die. All the work of the pistol
and knife and all negroes.
King Kalakaua of the Sandwich Is
| lands has abdicated aud new ministry
has been formed. The revolution was
peacefully accomplished.
The St. Louis cooperage establishment
was burned OIL the 4th. Loss S10O, 900.
-Four hundred people are thrown out Of
employment. -
A joint stock company has recently
been organized at Williamson, S. c., for
the purpose Of establishing high school
for boys.
! On Tuesday, 5th instant, Miss Sallie
Barnes, aged '16 years, of Edgefield, was
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
twenty-five or more persons of Brook
lyn were drowned Sunday, July 10, while
on picnic excursion on water.
Mrs. Cornelius Dubois, of New York,
is raising fund to send trained nurses
! to the deserving poor.
The Protestant baptisms throughout
Japan average at the present time about
l2O each week.